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A line that makes no sense what so ever.

posted 19 years ago by hoabob
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There is a line in this movie that makes absolutely no sence what so ever. It was completely ridiculous it made me and my dad laugh so hard. The line is THE ONLY UNBEARABLE THING IS THAT NOTHING IS UNBEARABLE. How the hell did they ever come up with that line? Me and my dad love to make jokes about other ways to say that line. Here are some of them.

The only thing I cant stand is that I can stand everything.

Everything is bearable accept for the fact that everything is bearable.

Everything is bearable accept for the bearability of everything.

The ony thing I cant stand is the fact that nothing is unbearable.

The only thing I cant stand is that everything is bearable.

Did the writer just write that in because he wanted the character to say something but he just couldent think of anything good for him to say so he just made him say something completely nonsense or what?

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[–] hoabob 19 years ago

Hey that actually makes sense. You're probably right. Thanks so much.

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[–] peterquince 18 years ago

That line sounds to me like something Oscar Wilde would have written. Loved it!

[–] zachanscom 12 years ago

give him more credit than that. the line lacks his wit and charm.

[–] andreas-schmidt-pabst 17 years ago

It could also mean, that everything is bearable to a human, in the sense, that he survives even the strongest psychological pain without dieing of it. (Only if he gets a heart attack or a stroke by too much stress.)
Just think about it: The normal human body keeps living, no matter, how worse the person is feeling emotionally. Only if he decides not to bear it any longer he can end his life, but it doesn´t end by itself.

"Hooters, hooters, yum yum yum
Hooters, hooters, on a girl that´s dumb!"
The Bundy credo

[–] Ode-to-a-Loner 18 years ago

I find it funny that you think that line is so silly. People find the oddest things to make fun of sometimes.

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[–] gundicus 17 years ago

It's true though - if you've ever been so far down that you just don't think you can physically or mentally go ON to take your next breath - and yet, you do - despite the agony. As someone who has lived with a debilitating, excruciatingly painful, incurable & progressive disease (CFIDS) for the last 6 years - I can attest to the fact that sometimes it really ticks me off that my body keeps GOING...when it really shouldn't - that's how I read the line. It's just agonizing to know that any human being is capable of comprehending it - let alone so many of us. Off topic, I know - but I had to jump in - I just watched that scene & had to speak my mind.

[–] tomdrake 17 years ago

you go man, i so don't agree with this dude, if he/she has such a narrow mind and is incappable to understand the slightist "philosophic" phrase, he/she sounldn't write. Good luck,hope to hear from you...

[–] kpryne-2 17 years ago

You would do as well to laugh at your own face in the mirror

[–] normlgirl-1 17 years ago

I also love this line. It makes total sense to me. It reminds me of the thought that you can get used to anything... (no matter how unbearable). Someone above mentioned that it conveys a feeling of apathy... it's perfect.

[–] Ode-to-a-Loner 17 years ago

I like this line as well. As another poster said, I don't know how the OP could have found the line to be so funny as in something to be mocked. That's what makes no sense to me.

What are you rebelling against?

[–] ct-man 17 years ago

you and your father are stupid.

[–] sarahjoyfitz 17 years ago

I think that the poster several posts up got it. Rimbaud is so caught up in what is going on in his head that sometimes he can't acknowledge what is right in front of him. As for the stabbing of Verlaine's hand....don't forget that just moments before in that scene he tells Verlaine that if he (meaning Verlaine) is going to be violent he must be violent and not apoligze after he commits his violent acts. Rimbaud shows no remorse for stabbing Verlaine's hand, he is teaching Verlaine a lesson. Verlaine is a very weak man, and Rimbaud trys to teach him to live his life as he wishes with no regrets and with meaning. You see this in the scene where Verlaine shoots Rimbaud's hand. Verlaine has yet to learn how to be strong and needs Rimbaud to be his strength. Sorry I got off topic but I just saw the film and am still processing it.

[–] zu20 17 years ago

To me InsectKin has it - the line is about the terror of apathy, the despair at feeling nothing. The only thing that he feels is a sense of his utter lack of feeling.

He can stab his lover in the hand and still feel nothing and feels a mourning for those feelings that would keep him from doin such things...

I think he is saying that despite himself (and his evident prior digust for Verlaine's contradictory behaviour) that he envies Verlaine for all his apologies. Because he himself is too cold to the world to ever feel the kind of guilt that would make him say sorry.

"And if all this seems to be eccentric
Be aware be sure I meant it"
I Johnny Marr

[–] Aulic Exclusiva 17 years ago

People who wound up in concentration camps during the Nazi era probably never imagined they could endure such misery, but they did. There seems to be no limit to the suffering that human beings can endure—because there seems to be no limit to the suffering that human beings can inflict.

We take this in and accept it. We endure the unedurable that we ourselves have made. And we cover it up with social constructs, as so many masks. Masks that mask horrible pain we ourselves make.

This haunted Arthur Rimbaud. He had an almost mystical intuition of what was behind those masks. He sought to remove them.

But in his quest to experience "all that man can experience", up to the purifying limits, he found no limits. He only found an ever deeper mess. In his attempt to devise a new language, one that would leave behind all ties and sentimentalities, that would speak "to the soul on behalf of the soul, subsuming all things" having experienced them all, he never expected to find human putrefaction the one infinite quality in man.

That man will put up with anything, without rebelling, he found unbearable, and he bitterly renounced literature as he bitterly renounced Verlaine's friendship, because it had become symbolic of man's cosmic masochism, one more lid over the sewer.

If the Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard, It can also be like a chicken-pox mark.